The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to New Jersey’s law concerning the right to carry a handgun in public, although two dissenting justices said the court should have heard the case.

The high court’s decision lets stand a U.S. District Court ruling that rejected a challenge to New Jersey’s law requiring anyone seeking a permit to carry a weapon to prove they have a justifiable need. But Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh said in a 19-page dissenting opinion that they saw the case as an opportunity to provide guidance to lower courts and to resolve a split among the circuits.

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